DELTA, B.C. — Three B.C. men police say have known gang ties have been charged with first-degree murder in the brazen daytime shooting death of a rival gang kingpin outside a Kelowna, B.C., hotel in summer 2011.

Officers with B.C.’s Combined Special Enforcement Unit say they arrested the trio in separate stings on Friday following an 18 month of investigation into the death of Jonathan Bacon.

The Red Scorpion gang leader was caught in a hail of gunfire as he entered a white Porsche SUV with four other people, including one woman whose injuries left her a paraplegic.